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* [PATCH] Documentation/git-merge: document subtree strategy.
@ 2008-03-18 12:26 Miklos Vajna
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From: Miklos Vajna @ 2008-03-18 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: git

There was already some documentation about subtree under
Documentation/howto but it was missing from git-merge manpage.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
---

Based on the commit message of 68faf68938ee943fc251c702f2027e4dfda354db.

 Documentation/merge-strategies.txt |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 7df0266..1276f85 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -33,3 +33,10 @@ ours::
 	merge is always the current branch head.  It is meant to
 	be used to supersede old development history of side
 	branches.
+
+subtree::
+	This is a modified recursive strategy. When merging trees A and
+	B, if B corresponds to a subtree of A, B is first adjusted to
+	match the tree structure of A, instead of reading the trees at
+	the same level. This adjustment is also done to the common
+	ancestor tree.
-- 
1.5.4.3

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